Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post
You're welcome. I feel that it's important to make this sort of stuff available to ensure that it's not lost. Imagine if you will a fire in which it or something similar was destroyed - we'd never know.

It's not the best qaulity I'm afraid but here's a close up of the tape.



It's a narrow herrngboned cotton material. I don't know what the technical term for it is but it reminds me of a narrower version of the bands we used to wear when I was at Primary School (5-11) during team games to indicate which side one was on.
Ahhh....thanks for the pic, and the description. I will look for anything like this among my supplies.
Is the tape similar in weight and feel to standard denim perhaps?
Even with thicker weight cloth tape, it seems like it might fray, or wear through.
I was thinking about possibly using a thinner leather, although I have no idea if there is any historical precedence for this.

thanks again......I will be needing to start the arduous task of stitching in the loops on my 4.5 yarder soon :-)